Shuttle launching at 2PM EST today

[windsor]

My father worked on Apollo 13, so I saw that one. Saturn V blows the shuttle out of the water for spectacular launches

Was "the problem" his fault?

LOL - no he wrote some of the navigational software so I don't think he caused the KFB*





(*Ker - Fucking - Boom)

[OZZIE4DUKE]

KFB*

(*Ker - Fucking - Boom)

Priceless! Absofuckinglutely priceless!

[TillyGalore]

When I was but a wee child, my Dad took us to some remote marshland viewing of the launch of one of the Mercury missions from Canaveral. I don't know which one it was and he is no longer around to ask.

It could have been this one then. The capsule from it is in Durham at the Museum of Life and Science. Always a favorite since I was a kid. It carried a chimp, and brought him back home alive.
http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/history/mer ... /ma-5.html

Sweet! That is down the street from my house.

[captmojo]

When I was but a wee child, my Dad took us to some remote marshland viewing of the launch of one of the Mercury missions from Canaveral. I don't know which one it was and he is no longer around to ask.

It could have been this one then. The capsule from it is in Durham at the Museum of Life and Science. Always a favorite since I was a kid. It carried a chimp, and brought him back home alive.
http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/history/mer ... /ma-5.html

Sweet! That is down the street from my house.

That timing would be close...but no cigar. We would have seen one that had to have taken off in summer as to coincide with Pop's vacation time which was always in summer.

[CameronBornAndBred]

I'm watching them on their spacewalks now. That would be incredibly exciting, but I'd be fighting throwing up in my helmet the whole time I were out there.
Watch NASA live here.

[colchar]

I'd sell my mother to fly on that thing.

What's it worth to you to have me not tell her about that comment when I meet her at the wedding?

[colchar]

I've heard the Saturn 5 boosters created the loudest man made noise, I'm not sure if it's true but I wouldn't doubt it.

You'd think a nuclear bomb blast would be louder.

[colchar]

LOL - no he wrote some of the navigational software so I don't think he caused the KFB*

(*Ker - Fucking - Boom)

Too many tasteless NASA jokes are coming to mind because of this thread.

[CameronBornAndBred]

I've heard the Saturn 5 boosters created the loudest man made noise, I'm not sure if it's true but I wouldn't doubt it.

You'd think a nuclear bomb blast would be louder.

Hard to get volunteers to test that theory. That and the microphone's keep melting.

[colchar]

Hard to get volunteers to test that theory.

Maybe we could talk Jumbo into doing it?

[bjornolf]

I'd sell my mother to fly on that thing.

What's it worth to you to have me not tell her about that comment when I meet her at the wedding?

Dude, do you really want to start off your marriage with that kind of relationship with your mother-in-law? Not good either way. She pays you off, you've blackmailed her. She doesn't pay you off and tells her daughter, and you can bet the bedroom is gonna be one hostile place for your first couple years together. Believe me, as an 8 year veteran of the marriage trenches and a kid who watched his parents fight a lot, you DON'T want to go there! ;)

[windsor]

I'd sell my mother to fly on that thing.

What's it worth to you to have me not tell her about that comment when I meet her at the wedding?

Dude, do you really want to start off your marriage with that kind of relationship with your mother-in-law? Not good either way. She pays you off, you've blackmailed her. She doesn't pay you off and tells her daughter, and you can bet the bedroom is gonna be one hostile place for your first couple years together. Believe me, as an 8 year veteran of the marriage trenches and a kid who watched his parents fight a lot, you DON'T want to go there! ;)

Bjornolf is a wise man indeed. He will be married a long time!

In this case, the truth of the matter is my mother would get it...if she didn't get motion sick watching a large screen TV she would want to go herself (this is a woman who went back and got a college degree - in I.T. - at 50)

[bjornolf]

I was about to say I bet if Windsor's mom posted on here, she's probably respond with "that's okay, I'd sell my daughter to go up in one of those things!"